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PostPosted: Sun May 30, 2021 12:24 am    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote
Let's celebrate all these cool vintage photos. Wunderbar!
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all fun and games until he touches the overhead cable....or the khazi collapses! Shocked
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 1:26 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote
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taking the zollenspieke-hoopte ferry across the elbe near hamburg
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What is the front vehicle? Other than the rear spare tire, it looks very VW-ish.


I thought of an Adler Trumpf Junior, but the bumper horns don't fit.


MG, maybe? sort of looks like the photo at the top of this thread:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...p;start=62
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 05, 2021 10:52 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote
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photos of british service beetles seem to have reg numbers in the format of two numbers, two letters, two numbers.
not finding BZ examples... Confused


BZ Was a designation for CCG administration and or civilian registered cars used in the British zone of Germany and Austria. (before 1955) Driven by doctors, lawyers and private British contractors working there.

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Info on this photo.............

Douglas C-74 Globemaster # 42-65414 of the United States Air Force Air Transport Command and it's familiar looking cargo.

Here's a 1947 Volkswagen being flown into Berlin's Gatow RAF Station during the Berlin Airlift in support of the USAF's "Operation Goliath" ca. Sept./Oct. 1948.

*It might be O.D. Green that certainly would make it a high ranking British Officer's vehicle?~ Or if it's Grey, then it a may have been a U.S. ARMY vehicle*

The Globemaster could only land at Gatow at that time, so all cargo that it carried went though the RAF station.


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glorious technicolour - note the tank drivers 'fizzog' Smile

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British Army Cromwell IV tank and a VW beetle somewhere in North Germany photographed by a "liberated" German Rolleiflex medium format camera in Agfa or Kodak Kodachrome color slide film in ca. 1946 or 47.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 12:08 am    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote
excellent info blauchen, thanks. do you have a reference source for the bz plate info?
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 3:55 am    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote
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Info on this photo.............

Douglas C-74 Globemaster # 42-65414 of the United States Air Force Air Transport Command and it's familiar looking cargo.

Here's a 1947 Volkswagen being flown into Berlin's Gatow RAF Station during the Berlin Airlift in support of the USAF's "Operation Goliath" ca. Sept./Oct. 1948.

*It might be O.D. Green that certainly would make it a high ranking British Officer's vehicle?~ Or if it's Grey, then it a may have been a U.S. ARMY vehicle*

The Globemaster could only land at Gatow at that time, so all cargo that it carried went though the RAF station. Tom


Many thanks - Interesting info. I see from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C-74_Globemaster that only a few of these aircraft were made, and if correct, 'our' aircraft was built in March 47, and retired only 7 years later.

By 1952, the C-74 began to experience shortages of spare parts and increasing maintenance problems. It was recognized by late 1954 that the deterioration of the C-74's components was progressing more rapidly than predicted. Plans were made for the eventual retirement of the Air Force's only fleet of Globemasters.

C-74 production
Serial # Produced Retired
42-65402 October 1945 October 1954
42-65404 July 1946 May 1954
42-65406 September 1946 September 1954
42-65407 February 1946 July 1954
42-65408 September 1946 October 1954
42-65409 January 1947 October 1954
42-65410 March 1946 March 1954
42-65411 December 1946 September 1953
42-65412 February 1947 October 1954
42-65413 February 1947 February 1954
42-65414 March 1947 February 1954
42-65415 April 1947 January 1954
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